New Manga Shout Out: 9/12/11 - 9/18/11

Welcome to the next New Manga Shout Out. With the no-raws/scans rule on MH, you have to work a bit to find these mangas. This week features a model who works construction, a week boy who wants to be a hero, and a virgin succubus. Remember, if you like any of the series, favorite them. Don't forget to also thank the various people who feed your manga addiction. ^_^ Translators and Scanlators, please check out these series and see if you can spread some more manga love~

We're still looking for people who know Japanese and want to help write summaries for our manga database and for the shout out. Please PM me if you want to help out. Now onto the series~

Murakami Sho has been putting years of blood and sweat into G&G Gold, a large banking company. He came up from nothing, worked insanely hard and now lives very comfortably, even having Rei, the hottest girl in the company, as his girlfriend. But all that starts to slip away when Kirishima Joe comes into the company. With his handsome looks, impeccable style, calm demeanor and well endowed manhood, Joe has been upstaging Sho in every aspect of his life. And when Joe takes Rei away from him, Sho snaps and takes any measure to destroy Joe’s life. But Joe has a secret that makes him hard to break.

One day, a high school boy named Rumi comes across an abandoned, decommissioned tram car, a place that could make a neat 'secret base.' He also meets the wildly energetic Fujino, who challenges him to a duel over usage of the space. Their duel is actually a very creative, competitive game played out in the public areas of the town. While Rumi almost can't believe what's happening, he has to admit that their 'duel' is the most fun and excitement he's had in a long time, much more exciting than his video games. Before long, Rumi and Fujino are friends, and their adventures with the abandoned tram car, soon named the "Black Parade," have begun!

Living his entire childhood in a hospital was never easy for Arashi Ryusei, but being born with a weak body, he had no choice and has not experienced living outside the confines of the hospital. However, his dad, a karate master, has been physically and mentally pushing Ryusei beyond his breaking point. But what he realizes later is that he was only doing it to give Ryusei confidence and a strong will. Now at the age of 14, he is healthy enough to get out of the hospital bed and out in the real world where he has to go to school. Although he has superhuman reflexes, his innocence to everything and naïve personality is both a gift and a curse.

Starting in 1999, this is the story of the high school life of three friends. Yukari is an ambitious girl who loves money. Takao is a big, kind of timid guy who is also an expert at karate. Kanze has the most spectacular talent of all: she can recreate any sound she hears perfectly, whether it's someone's voice or a musical instrument. The three of them spend their high school days solving (or creating) mysteries, taking on cases at the request of other students. Whether they're dealing with kidnappings or school myths, their high school life is anything but dull!

Nurunuru Pharmaceutical’s leading product, the Piagra, helps men bring up and maintain their sex drive. To further develop their research, the president of the company has hired a succubus. Known for their sexual drive and ability to manipulate male sexuality, the employees imagine a very foxy woman. But when they see that the succubus is Yamashita Madoka, a young innocent looking girl who is just as pure as she looks, they don’t know what to expect. Will Madoka be able to contribute anything to the company even if she is a virgin?

A collection of short stories about first romantic relationships. When young people first start dating, there's a lot of shyness, miscommunication, and embarrassment involved. How do you figure out the perfect time to grab a girl's hand while walking together? When is the right time to share your first kiss? These brief stories capture the innocent awkwardness and the excitement of falling in love.

Tobita Mai is a beautiful young woman who works as a popular fashion model for a magazine. However, her life takes an unexpected turn when her father runs off and vanishes. Now Mai is expected to fill her father's shoes... and manage his construction group. Mai's going to have a tough time balancing her increasingly intense job as a model with the rigors of working with a construction team. Will she be able to handle her new double life?

Kurogane Hiroto is in high school, where he is academically the top of his class but literally the worst in physical activity. Born with a weak body, he has no endurance, speed nor strength and Hiroto wants nothing more than to be a hero. Fate teases him by giving him phenomenal eye sight, which allows him to see well beyond anyone else in sports, but his body is not able to react to any of it.

He learns from his friend Shiratori, who wants to recruit him for the Kendo team, about a rumor about a ghost named Tojo Sayuri, who wields a katana and haunts an ally in the city. Half curious, Hiroto goes there only to find that the ghost is real and that Tojo Sayuri has been looking for a successor to her Sakura sword style for 150 years. Sayuri chooses him as the successor after being able to dodge her attack and forces him to learn the Sakura style. Even with the help of the ancient swordsman ghost, Hiroto has to overcome his poor motor skills in order to be the hero he always wanted to be.

Oshino Yui's family cares for a small shrine. Yui helps out with the shrine daily and during festivals, but she also has the ability to see ghosts and spirits. She usually feels sorry for the lonely ghosts and sometimes befriends them. Yui doesn't really like cleansing spirits from a place for the convenience of living humans, but it is part of her job. On top of all the spirit and shrine work, Yui also has to handle her life at school and the confusing friendships and relationships that come with being a teenage girl!

As long as men have been around, their sexual needs had to be satisfied. One of the ways was through the use of sex dolls and they served a very important purpose. Hyoma, in his younger days, used his powers to place the souls of people who have died into sex dolls, which animated them and made them more realistic. But realizing the horror and pain it brought, Hyoma now seeks all of his creations that have been scattered throughout Edo so that he can release the souls and give them peace. He forms a partner with his sister Chizu who is also one of Hyoma’s creations that has some special features to her body.

Eisaku and Natsuko are madly in love with each other and have been ever since Eisaku drifted into town couple months ago. She fell in love with Eisaku’s radiant personality, but little does she know, he's trying to escape his dark past as the number one host in Kabuki, aka Bee. Bee is infamous in the darker side of society for being the strongest, ruthless and most devious host of Tokyo who disappeared from the streets several months back. But when the past catches up to Eisaku, he is forced to return to the dangerous world of the adult district of Kabuki.

Thanks go to vyc for the summary.

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This is what tethysdust said this week:

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Burapa looks like it could become a pretty good story, I don't think the characters are as stereotypical as they appear at first. Hatsukiai was really innocent and cute. Musubi no Mori had really old-style character art, but the story was the most entertaining of the ones I read this week.Here's what vyc had to say:

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We Need Kiss - awesome series about the adult industry in Japan with hosts/hostesses. Lots of violence, sex and other mature topics. The storyline and twists keeps you glued to the pages.

Animal Joe - Same author as GTO. Same kind of comedy so if you liked GTO, you will enjoy Animal Joe. The main character is cool and pure awesomeness. Must read.My opinion: The only manga that really seemed somewhat interesting to me is Animal Joe only due to the fact that it's from the mangaka of GTO. However, it's only one volume and on hold so who knows if he'll ever return to this manga and finish it...